House of Assembly: Tuesday, April 30, 2019

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Targeted Voluntary Separation Packages

658 The Hon. S.C. MULLIGHAN (Lee) (27 February 2019). How many targeted voluntary separation packages (TVSPs) have been offered across the public sector since 21 August 2018?

1. Which departments and agencies have they been offered in?

2. Which classification levels have these been offered?

3. What is the estimated dollar value of these offers since 21 August 2018?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier): I have been advised:

Table 1 shows the number of employees for whom calculations were prepared by Shared Services SA for the purpose of agencies making an offer of a TVSP during the period 22 August 2018 to 6 March 2019, including the value of these TVSP offers.

Table 1

Agency TVSPs offered $ value
Arts SA 15 $1,510,361.45
Attorney-General's Department 72 $6,746,384.55
Department for Child Protection 3 $326,254.83
Department for Correctional Services 35 $3,082,602.89
Department for Energy and Mining 16 $1,693,259.19
Department for Environment and Water 117 $11,591,658.92
Department for Industry and Skills 43 $4,160,722.72
Department of Human Services 64 $4,508,160.65
Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure 65 $7,119,810.53
Department of Primary Industries and Regions SA 118 $11,912,820.70
Department of the Premier and Cabinet 21 $2,559,028.76
Department for Trade, Tourism and Investment 15 $1,778,853.76
Department of Treasury and Finance 61 $7,004,448.56
Environment Protection Authority 20 $2,331,437.06
Green Industries SA 3 $187,948.23
SA Health—Central Adelaide Local Health Network 3 $279,167.66
SA Health—Department for Health and Wellbeing 3 $682,740.50
SA Health—Northern Adelaide Local Health Network 1 $147,127.62
SA Health—Women's and Children's Health Network 1 $140,458.37
South Australian Housing Authority 65 $6,632,106.09
TAFE SA 3 $446,806.46
Department for Education 165 $14,245,762.74
South Australia Police 14 $968,754.34
Total 923 $90,056,676.58


Note that due to a time lag from offer to separation, offers for this period will not correspond directly with acceptances for the same period. Not all TVSPs offers will be accepted by employees. Agencies will only advise Shared Services SA of offers that are accepted.

Shared Services SA have advised that the information it receives for TVSP purposes includes payroll identification and related information but not classification level. Therefore the classification level for each of these employees is not readily available.